Sketches Towards a Hortus Botanicus Americanus; Or Coloured Plates (with Concise and Familiar Descriptions) of New and Valuable Plants of the West Indies and North and South America, Etc |
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Apple aromatic astringent balsam Barbadoes Barham says bark beautiful berries Bicornes bitter boiled branches called canella alba capsicum capsule Cassia cathartic CLASS colour Columniferæ common in Jamaica containing cooling cultivated cure decoction demulcent diaphoretic Ditto diuretic dose dropsy dysentery East Indies eaten emetic esculent excellent Explanation of Plate fevers flowers footstalks Frontispiece fructification fruit genus grass green grows Guinea Gum Arabic herb herbaceous inches Indian infusion Ital juice leaf leaves maica Mammee Apple MONOGYNIA natives of Jamaica Negroes North America oblong orange oval ovate palm panicle pepper pine pinnated plantain pleurisy poisonous powder prickly pulp purple remedy rises root roundish seed vessel sessile shrub smell Span species spikes stalk Stamens stem strangury sugar sweet taste timber tree TRIANDRIA trunk ulcers valuable plant virtues vulnerary weed West Indies wholesome wild wood worms wort yellow